Synopses & Reviews
Happiness isnt the too-brief rush that comes from getting something youve wanted—its the lasting great feeling that comes from becoming someone you want to be. And someone others want to be with, too. No matter where you start, Happy can help you improve your life and permanently alter your level of happiness.
Dr. Ian has inspired millions to lose weight. In counseling dieters, Smith learned that while achieving hard-fought goals can help make a person happy, even real accomplishments may not make happiness stick. In Happy, Dr. Ian Smith presents a simple program that motivates readers to understand the behaviors and mind-sets that work and last, including:
--How to be optimistic
--Why optimism and realism are not opposites
--The importance of family and community
--Tapping the power of simple pleasures
--Mastering modern life to live in the moment
--What we can learn from the Danish people
Happy is a life-changing book from one of Americas most trusted voices.
Review
"An excellent motivational and insightful self-help guide, Happy lives up to its title." - Midwest Book Review
Synopsis
The #1 bestselling author of "the Fat Smash Diet" and the medical/diet expert for VH1's "Celebrity Fit Club" now helps readers tap into behaviors and mindsets that can lead to reaching their personal high-mark of positive feelings.
About the Author
Ian K. Smith, M.D., is the number one bestselling author of The Fat Smash Diet, Extreme Fat Smash Diet, The 4 Day Diet, The 4 Day Detox and EAT. He is a medical contributor on The View and The Rachael Ray Show, the diet expert on VH1s Celebrity Fit Club, and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Healthwise on American Urban Radio Networks. He writes a medical column for Mens Health magazine. He has written for various publications including Time and Newsweek, and been featured in People, Essence, Ebony and Cosmopolitan, among others. He is a former medical correspondent for NBC and for NewsChannel 4 in New York, where he filed reports for NBCs Nightly News and The Today Show. In 2007, he created the 50 Million Pound Challenge, a free national weight loss initiative with a growing list of more than 1.9 million people registered. Dr. Smith graduated from Harvard College with an AB and received a masters in science education from Columbia University. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and completed the last two years of his medical education and graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. A native of Danbury, Connecticut, Dr. Smith currently resides in Manhattan.